Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate Recovery

Find Freedom, Find community

Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find freedom from your hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

Celebrate Recovery is for EVERYONE!

No one should have to face their pain alone.

We are a grace-filled community of strugglers who courageously enter this safe and beautiful space to get honest about our pain, and the negative ways we may see ourselves, God, and others. In this process, we come to accept that some of the habits we have developed to escape our pain may have hurt us and those close to us.

It is a biblically based approach to help us achieve long lasting recovery by healing our hurts, guiding us toward new healthy truths, and developing life-giving habits.

Is Celebrate Recovery for Me?

One of the biggest misconceptions about Celebrate Recovery is that it is only for people who struggle with drug or alcohol addiction. That could not be further from the truth. In fact, out of all of the people who attend Celebrate Recovery around the world, ⅔ of them come for an issue other than drugs or alcohol. Some of the reasons people attend CR are: codependency, anger issues, sexual addiction, adult child of family dysfunction, eating disorders, control issues, perfectionism, anxiety, depression, sexual, physical, emotional or mental abuse, and that’s just to name a few. We truly believe that everyone can benefit from Celebrate Recovery! If there’s any issue in your life that is holding you back or causing you pain, Celebrate Recovery is a fit for you!

What to Expect

You’ll find loving people who won’t judge you or try to fix you. You’ll find people who have experience healing from their hurts, hang-ups and habits in CR by the power of Jesus Christ. Next, you’ll find a safe place to share what’s going on in your life and hear from the experience of others. Most importantly, you’ll find a place where you can connect with Jesus and find healing from your life’s issues, what we often refer to as hurts, hang-ups and habits. No one should have to go through recovery alone, get started in Celebrate Recovery today!

History

Celebrate Recovery started in 1991 as a ministry of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. Founder John Baker shared with Senior Pastor Rick Warren a vision God had given John for a new ministry where people could find freedom from their hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

With John and his wife Cheryl leading the ministry, on the first night, 43 people attended, and Celebrate Recovery was officially born. Today, over 27,000 people have gone through the program at Saddleback Church.

There are now 35,000+ churches with a Celebrate Recovery ministry, plus Celebrate Recovery is found in recovery houses, rescue missions, universities, and prisons around the world. We are a part of something much larger than one church’s recovery ministry. Celebrate Recovery continues to be a growing global movement.

The need for Celebrate Recovery is unmistakable, being a safe place for people to find freedom from the issues controlling their lives.